Category: Interdisciplinary Learning

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P7 Pump Track Safety

Today Primary 7 were set the challenge of creating a poster to demonstrate how to safely use the pump track.

First of all they used Kahoot to assess their knowledge of bicycle safety.

We discussed what a pump track was and it is different from other bicycle tracks. Then we watched a YouTube video which gave us some tips on how to use it safely and made notes. We also discussed what advice we could give to younger children in our school about the pump track.

They then used their notes to create a pump track safety poster for the children in our school.

Watch this space for their final posters!

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Call for Help! Developing the Young Workforce!

We are keen for our pupils to have opportunities to learn about a variety of skills and knowledge that may help encourage and inspire them to consider different options in the future.

During the year there are opportunities for class learning to link with occupations and skills for work. We would like to build a bank of volunteers to approach during the year to come in to talk to the children.

This could be class, group chats or running a workshop, whatever you feel comfortable with. If you would like to volunteer to talk about your job or skills please fill in the form below.

This can be shared with parents, carers and members of the community.

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Our Award Winning Garden!

Last week judges from West Lothian Council visited our school to judge our school garden for the Primary School Gardening Competition.

We are delighted to announce that we received TWO awards!

  • Decorative Garden
  • Container Garden

This is a huge achievement for our school,  and a tribute to the work of Sarah-Jane and our gardening club, a big thank you to them. Well done!

 

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Celebration Assembly Term 4

On Friday we had our final celebration of the year.

https://www.slideshare.net/PUSCPS/celebration-assembly-term-4-151247955

Anna and Holly past pupils from PUSCPS, currently at Broxburn Academy, joined us to tell us about their achievement journey. It was fantastic to hear about all the opportunities that Broxburn Academy gives to children. We are very proud of all Anna and Holly’s achievements, thank you for joining us.

Congratulations to our Top Scorers!

STEM Superstars are those children who have made fantastic progress or achievements in science, technologies or maths.

Awesome Authors are those children who have made fantastic progress or achievements in writing.

Ross Logan our Active schools co-coordinator joined us to give out some medals. First of all to those children who attend our after school clubs, the coaches nominated them for an award.

Secondly he gave medals to our fantastic basketball team for the progress they have made this year.

Jack received Most Valuable Player because of his determination, positive attitude, willingness to work hard and because he has been a great team player. Lauren received Most Improved Player, for being to shoe great basketball skills and a positive attitude towards training. We also presented Mrs Hamilton with a gift for being such an inspiring coach.

IDL is a new literacy programme, some children have been using this session to support learning in literacy. Children who have reached milestones in this received certificates.

We recognised those children who took part in the West Lothian Triathlon.

We presented Eve with an award for her piece of writing which is now representing our cluster at the West Lothian Stellar Awards.

Mrs Montgomery received a West Lothian Leadership Award for completing her Early Years Officer course.

This week was the West Lothian Sumdog Competition. P3, P6 nd P5 ranked in the score board and some of our children ranked within the top 100 out of 2097 children!

Finally the house winner of the term was … Almond! Congratulations! We will organise a house treat for the last week of term.

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Our School Garden

Over the last few months we have been working hard in our school garden. After school garden club, Club Wild and the P1s and P2s have all been busy using their green fingers to prepare the beds, plant seeds and make signs ready for the growing season. This year we are going crazy for colour to brighten up our playground.
In the vegetable patch we have been looking at the different plant families, roots, tubers, fruits, leafy, bulbs, stems, flowering and pulses. Gardeners use these families to group plants with the parts that we eat. Our potatoes, broad beans, onions and peas are already looking great. The broad beans have a beautiful dark pink flower which is attracting lots of bees and if you watch quietly you might see the sparrows feeding babies nesting in the bird box.
Around the playground colours are popping up everywhere. At after school garden club we have been thinking about different colours and what things we see in nature are that colour. We started with red and planted poppies, strawberries and nasturtium and we painted coconut ladybirds to decorate the fence. Mrs Brady gave us some red sunflowers. I wonder how tall they will grow. We went on to think about and plant blue, green, pink, purple, orange and yellow zones in the playground.
This year we have also been using the herbs that we have growing in the garden and school grounds. The P2s learned about the healing properties of plants such as lavender, willow bark, eucalyptus, feverfew, and sage amongst others. The children made their own medicine for Molly, the class doll who was unwell.
We have also been working on our wild flower patch that we planted a few years ago. Club Wild had great fun making seed bombs and throwing them, along with making butterfly feeders.
Our rich and colourful garden is wonderful for the children and all our visiting wildlife. Please help us to look after this valuable and well loved resource.
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